Hurricane Florence will be a monster for North and South Carolina, but the storm likely will have no impact on southwest Missouri weather, according to the National Weather Service in Springfield.

"We've been looking at it, but it doesn't look like it will have any impact here," said NWS meteorologist Mark Burchfield. "Some of the models take it as far west as Kentucky, but that's as far as it goes."

Burchfield said the Ozarks is in a fairly stable dry period, with no rain in the forecast for the next seven days. Weather forecasters are watching a tropical system that's trying to develop in the Gulf of Mexico, but even that one might only bring rain to Texas.

"We're just kind of stuck in the middle here in the Ozarks," he said.

The remnants of tropical storm Gordon that swept through the Ozarks last weekend dumped enough rain to turn brown yards green again.

Burchfield said because of that system, Springfield is now 1.7 inches above normal for rainfall for the year.